Turkish-American political commentator Cenk Uygur said he has been barred from entering the United Kingdom after authorities revoked his travel authorisation ahead of planned events in London and Oxford this week.

Uygur has repeatedly criticised Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and described its actions as genocide.

Political commentator and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, Uygur’s nephew, said on social media that British authorities had also revoked his visa.

“The UK has revoked my visa as well,” Piker wrote, alleging the decision was made “at the behest of Israel”. Piker is also scheduled to appear at SXSW London this week. South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual film and music event.

  • Cossty@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I am not from the US, don’t support Israel, and I am as far left as you can get. If on anybody, you don’t agree with it, you are throwing Maga and Zionist, I would be surprised if anybody took you seriously. But I get it. It’s really easy. I sometimes catch myself do that too.

    There are videos of Hassan:

    Dragging his old dog by the tail.

    His old having bloody/hurt neck under collar. Most likely it was too tight, or he was pulling it too hard.

    There are more examples and videos of him forcing his current dog to lay in one place for 4-8 hours. Doesn’t matter to me if it was only vibration option on the collar.

    And in the other videos of the dog, she is just watching him from behind for a long time when she wants to do anything. It’s like asking for permission and being afraid of him and as soon as he just twitches towards her, she goes back to her place immediately.

    There is a video of him with his current dog, as a puppy, in a cage with some other dog and they are fighting, not playing, they are fighting, and his dog is squealing, and he is just out loud laughing a calling her dumb.

    This alone is enough for me to call him animal abuser. And on top of that, there are pretty convincing reasons to believe he was actually using the shock option.

    I wasn’t active Hassan watcher, but I tuned in for ±3 hours every month before this.

    Tell me, why should I only believe what Hassan says and not believe my eyes?

    Just because he is not Maga and has harsh words for Israel makes him automatically good person and person to emulate?

    You are calling me stupid and easily manipulated but did you look into the mirror and ask yourself if you aren’t being manipulated by hassan and his circle?

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      Do you have those videos at hand? For the two years I have watched him, he has done nothing bad to the dog. That dog is living a better life than a lot of people I know.

      Have you ever had a big dog? My cousin had a rare blue Border Collie he spoiled like a child because he paid so much for her. She’d alway scratch the glass door to beg him to let her in his bedroom, which was always cold due to the AC. She’d lay down and chill/sleep on her bed for the entire day and night. She’d play a lot in the morning with the other dogs, and my cousin and I would take her for a walk at night too after gaming all day in our chairs, worse than the dogs, more sedentary, less movement.

      You are exaggerating. Kaya is not being forced to lay there. She’ll leave the stream by herself, usually when someone in Hasan’s house picks her up. I’m watching him right now; Kaya hasn’t even been in the stream for the past month.

      Now, if you asked me, about 85% of households I have seen in both Mexico and Texas (and most of the world, really) do not deserve to have a dog. I feel heartbroken for them, because they are left outside under the sun, ignored and forgotten. I truly believe only like 15% of them are living a barely decent life, and nobody really gives a fuck about that. Most of them will live a mediocre life inside a tiny hot backyard, being fed the same boring bland food, without anything fun to do for years. No exploration of nature, no, just a wall, barking, the annoying sound of cars waking you up your entire life and that’s it. Probably forced to commune with other dogs they don’t necessarily like or tolerate either. Shit is medieval. And I don’t care if you personally are an outlier or think you belong to the 15%; it isn’t a common practice to groom and care for them as much as Hasan or someone like my cousin do. I’m talking treating them like a literal member of the family for at least 6-7 days a week, not an accessory in your backyard or home.

      And how is he manipulating me? What for? Even if he was an animal abuser, which he is not, how does that change anything of what he has said regarding other topics? He’s the only dude who has taught me to prioritize turning every opportunity into class consciousness, to focus on the message and not the messenger as much as you can, on things that actually matter, like the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. For free. Haven’t spent a single dime.

      You, in the other hand, ALWAYS attack the messenger, but never the message. Always drama, rarely anything else. I don’t trust people like that. You benefit the Jeffrey Epstein Class, MAGAs and Zionists and all those violent angry weirdos whenever you attack Hasan with this nonsense. I rather hear arguments attacking his ideas, not him. You only come across as an insincere actor trying to taint the discussion with distractions, probably because you do support the Epstein Class, MAGAs or Zionists, otherwise, what?

      Are you trying to make the left look like “unreasonable extremist” people by making it seem like they care more about a dog than a genocide or the current events of the world? It’s been almost a year with the shock collar bullshit. If you genuinely care about that THAT much, I am sorry but, I can’t trust you.